7. And the scribes and the Pharisees were watching if he would heal on the sabbath, that they might find something of which to accuse him.
8. But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Get up, and stand in the midst. And having risen up he stood there.
9. Jesus therefore said to them, I will ask you if it is lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
10. And having looked around on them all, he said to him, Stretch out thy hand. And he did so and his hand was restored as the other.
11. But they were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.
12. And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
13. And when it was day he called his disciples, and having chosen out twelve from them, whom also he named apostles:
14. Simon, to whom also he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew,
15. and Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon who was called Zealot,
16. and Judas brother of James, and Judas Iscariote, who was also his betrayer;
17. and having descended with them, he stood on a level place, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
18. and those that were beset by unclean spirits were healed.
19. And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power went out from him and healed all.
20. And he, lifting up his eyes upon his disciples, said, Blessed are ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
21. Blessed ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.
22. Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from them, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake:
23. rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their fathers act toward the prophets.